"I regard these philanthropists as themselves the effects of the age in which they live, in common with so many other good facts the efflorescence of the period and predicting the good fruit that ripens. They were not the creators that they believed themselves to be; but they were unconscious prophets of the true state of society, one which the tendencies of nature lead unto, one which always establishes itself for the sane soul, though not in that manner in which they paint it." "Our visions have not come to naught, Who saw by lightning in the night; The deeds we dreamed are being wrought By those who work in clearer light; In other ways our fight is fought, And other forms fulfill our thought Made visible to all men's sight."[41] FOOTNOTES: [10] _Karl Marx: Biographical Memoirs_, by Wilhelm Liebknecht, page 101. [11] _Socialism, Utopian and Scientific_, by F. Engels, London, 1892, pages 20-25. [12] For good accounts of the life of Owen the reader is referred to the Biography, by Lloyd Jones, in _The Social Science Series_, 1890, published by Swan, Sonnenschein & Co., London, and the _Life of Robert Owen_, by Frank Podmore, 2 vols., New York, 1907. [13] _The Industrial History of England_, by H. de B. Gibbins, London, Methuen and Co. [14] _Industrial History of England_, page 179. [15] This anonymous historian is now known to have been Mr. Samuel Kydd, barrister-at-law (_vide_ Cooke-Taylor). [16] _The Factory System and the Factory Acts_, by R. W. Cooke-Taylor, London, 1894. [17] In two volumes: London, Effingham Wilson, 1857 and 1858. Vol. I contains the Life; Vol. II is a Supplementary Appendix. Quotations are from Vol. I. [18] See _Songs of Freedom_, by H. S. Salt, pages 81-83. [19] _Industrial History of England_, page 181. [20] _Capital_, by Karl Marx, Vol. I, page 467, Kerr edition. [21] _Idem_, Vol. I, page 468. [22] _Capital_, Vol. I, page 468. [23] For instance, he so improved the machinery and increased the fineness of the threads that, instead of spinning seventy-five thousand yards of yarn to the pound of cotton, he spun two hundred and fifty thousand! At that time a pound of cotton, which in its raw state was worth $1.25, became worth $50 when spun.--_Life of Robert Owen_, Philadelphia, 1866.--_Anonymous._ [24] _Autobiography._ [25] _The Force of Circumstances_, a poem, by John Garwood, Birmingham, 1808. [26] Quoted by Engels, _Socialism, Utopian and Scientific_, page 22 (English edition, 1892). [27] Quoted by H. M. Hyndman, _The Economics of Socialism_, page 150. [28] _The New Harmony Communities_, by George Browning Lockwood, page 71. [29] Quoted by Lockwood, _The New Harmony Communities_, pages 71-72. [30] Owen presided at the first organized Trade Union Congress in England.